On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Charles R Harris
<charlesr.harris@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Pauli Virtanen <pav@iki.fi> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> The Buildbot (up once again) is showing build failures on some platforms:
>>>>>>http://buildbot.scipy.org/builders/Windows_XP_x86_64_MSVC/builds/875/steps/shell/logs/stdio>>>>http://buildbot.scipy.org/builders/Linux_SPARC_64_Debian/builds/423/steps/shell/logs/stdio>>>> Are these a sign of some bug (in the new math config system?), or
>> a glitch in the buildslaves only?
>> They are old problems. The Debian problem comes from missing prototypes, the
> Windows problems from a missing function. I had workarounds for these but
> David removed them and wants to solve them otherwise.
> The Debian problem
> probably won't be solved at all because it is a distro problem, you might
> try an upgrade.
The Debian problem is more or less irrelevant IMHO. It is a toolchain
bug in old debian on sparc, that is a bug in an old version of a
barely used platform.
The windows problem is more serious, but I would like to avoid a
workaround which impact other platforms.
David